Summer Internships

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Exciting summer internships allow students to gain experience, explore possible career paths, live out their personal values, and weave together their education at Carleton with community and civic engagement.

• Learn about and from community partner
  • Understand community partner frameworks, stakeholders, audiences
  • Explore organizational structure and development
  • Attend meetings with stakeholders, other invested parties

• Provide opportunities to lead and manage projects or programs
  • Plan, develop, implement, evaluate projects or programs 
  • Analyze project stakeholders, those impacted by projects or programs
  • Create opportunities to supervise volunteers
  • Transition project management, ensuring continuity of projects or programs

• Communicate the work and values of the community partners to campus stakeholders and future Summer Interns

• Collaborate with professionals inside and outside of the community partner
  • Build strong, meaningful relationships with community partners

• Translate knowledge, skills, and interests learned in the classroom to support community partner projects/programs

• November/December: Develop position postings with Erica Zweifel
• December: Posting go live on Carleton’s Handshake platform
• January/February: Priority deadline for applications, with the option to extend
• March – May: Recruitment and hiring continues until positions filled

Thanks to the generous support of Carleton donors and supporters, community partners may engage Carleton students in full-time or part-time unpaid summer internships without placing a financial burden on students. Students with unpaid or underpaid internships may apply for funding from the Career Center to cover their summer expenses based on the student’s need.

• Active recruiting among students involved in the local community through the CCCE’s other programs
• Student issue-area email list
• Relevant ACE class Participants
• Relevant Carleton department newsletters

• Visit Northfield has lots of good suggestions 
• Riverwalk Market Fair, every Saturday from late May through late October from 9am-1pm in Bridge Square. Local produce, baked goods and artistry.
• Northfield Arts Guild has classes/performances
• Red Barn pizza night is delicious!
• Bike/Walk the East Cannon River Trail to Marthas (Dundas) for lunch or pastries
• Volunteer at the Community Action Food shelf
• Thrift shop at Used a Bit Shoppe, Clothes Closet, Thrifty Parrot, Vintage
• the Friends of Downtown Northfield
• Volunteer with Carleton Farm or Sharing our Roots with wildlife counts or farm days

Check out the city event calendar!